The crime was strikingly similar to the notorious Scott Peterson murder case in California, and Bonaventure said she wished it could have the same outcome.

“He should get the death sentence,” she fumed.

Pierre, who is not eligible for the death penalty, faces 25 years to life in prison when he’s sentenced on April 28.

His lawyer, Edward Sapone, said he and his client would weigh their legal options.

Prosecutor David Druc- ker had argued that Pierre murdered the aspiring teacher because she’d refused to have an abortion.

“He didn’t do it in spite of her being pregnant,” Drucker said. “He did it, actually, because she was pregnant – because he was, or would have been, the father of the baby, and because he didn’t want a baby in his life.”

He told jurors that Pierre had been carrying on a secret relationship with Bonaventure while he was going out with her roommate at SUNY New Paltz. He was also dating several other women at the time, Drucker said.

The 20-year-old Bonaventure was seven months pregnant when she left her parents’ home in Mount Vernon to go visit Pierre at his Brooklyn home. She was never seen alive again. Prosecutors said Pierre strangled her, and then went to the apartment of his frat brother, Josh Cayenne, to get his help ditching her body.

Sapone maintained Pierre never actually met Bonaventure that night, and argued that Cayenne, who testified against his buddy in a no-jail deal, was the real killer. The jurors didn’t buy it.